Sad to say, but there are officially now exactly 3 more Christmas lights on this blog than there are on my house thus far this season. Let’s hope my daughter and I can find some sliver of spare time this next weekend to change all that. 
If clever quips are my business, business is bad.
Archives for the month of: December, 2008
Thanks to Heathenx for alerting me to the Flow into Frame feature in Inkscape. This wonderful little function makes things like this very very simple to do:
Via Pewari, I just found out about this neat service called YourFonts where you can create your very own TrueType font very quickly and easily. You download a PDF template sheet, print it out, carefully draw out your characters in pen (I used a medium felt-tip), scan it in and upload to their site. You will be rewarded in short order (like 1 min for me) with a ttf file of your very own. All for the cost of zero dollars.
That is simply cool.
This blog is now running on the fancy-schmancy WordPress 2.7. The upgrade was joyously uneventful. And this new admin interface is clearly the bomb.
Carry on.
Yeah, I know that gPodder already has a logo. But after listening to the recent interview on Linux Outlaws 67, I figured it might be a nice creative exercise to come up with something anyway. Not most people’s idea of a fun evening, but it relaxes me after a stressful day of engineering work.
Anyway, I think what I came up with looks kinda neat. But I think it’s too complicated and fiddly to work as a logo or icon, and unless you want to have gPodder wallpaper (hey - whatever floats your boat) it’s likely one of those images that serves no purpose at all… except giving me something to de-stress over.
[UPDATE: Late last night after a little more fiddling, I made the same modification as raydancer made in the comments to this post and shortened the horizontal stroke of the “G”, making it look more like a “G” and less like an “E”. The revised one is below.]
It was a little less than a year ago that I first struggled through creating a WordPress theme from scratch for my blog. And now I spent about two or three evenings coming up with another one. This time it really is a clean and simple theme. Almost barren in fact.
I’m not sure if I’ll like it a month from now or not, but it’s readable, not ugly (to me anyway), will undoubtedly load fairly fast and it served to refresh my css skills as well, which can never be a bad thing. 
I’ve gone the full two yards here and fully tested it with Firefox and Epiphany. I’ll test it tomorrow from work with Chrome, but that’s it. If other browsers fumble this dead simple stylesheet then they deserve to be ignored.
I’d appreciate any comments you might have on the new look (good or bad) and please report any squirrelly behaviour - of which there will likely be plenty.